Whether you love or hate Heathrow, it's just been voted the country's best airport

Heathrow may be at the centre of a heated debate but it's the UK's best airport, apparently (Image: PA)

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London has loads of airports, from Luton and Stansted to Gatwick and City . If you want to fly away from here, there are plenty of places to go from.

The heated debate around Heathrow Airport's expansion plans have thrust it into the spotlight, and it's a bit of a surprise to us the controversial West London transport hub has been voted among the world's best by travellers.

Swathes of environmental activists, a handful of politicians and hundreds of Londoners living under the flight path have taken a stand against the planned third runway.

But no matter how unpopular it may be with some in our city, it's a hit with globe trotters from elsewhere, or so a new study by flight comparison website eDreams suggests.

In fact it was the only UK airport to make the top 10 in the survey which quizzed 79,857 eDreams customers who travelled through international airports in 2018.

So Heathrow only came seventh, which hardly deserves a medal, but it beat Stansted, Luton, Manchester and Birmingham, none of which ranked in the top 10.

Airports were rated out of five stars for their shops, restaurants and waiting rooms, and while Heathrow didn't come top in any of these categories, it did improve on its score from last year. You go, girl.

Heathrow moved from 10th best airport in the world in 2018 to seventh in 2019. Its shops and restaurants scored 4/5 stars each and its waiting rooms got 3.5/5.

Bearing in mind factors including customer service, check-in waiting times, queues for passport checks, good transport links and easy flight transfers weren't taken into account, these are the best airports in the world right now, apparently.

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These are the best airports in the world in 2019

According to a study by eDreams are the best airports in the world right now:

1. Singapore Changi, Singapore

2. Brisbane Airport, Brisbane, Australia

3. Zurich Airport, Zurich, Switzerland

4. Franz Josef Strauss, Munich, Germany

5. Istanbul Airport, Istanbul, Turkey

6. Arlanda, Stockholm, Sweden

7. Heathrow, London, England

8. Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok, Thailand

9. Fuhlsbuttel, Hamburg, Germany

10. Ben-Gurion International, Israel

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